Biomechanical Assessment
The physios at BRH have extensive experience in assessing your biomechanics. By analysing your movement patterns, we can uncover the root cause of your symptoms and give you an accurate diagnosis. We are then able to provide a progressive pathway of treatment and rehabilitation to return you to optimal function.
Do you suffer from injuries that persist or keep recurring? Are all your injuries on one side? Do your injuries flare after exercise such as Running or Padel? Do you want to improve your sports performance?
Our detailed biomechanical assessment is suitable for the young as well as the older person, from the keen dog walker to the elite athlete.
At BRH Physiotherapy, we find the source of the problem by assessing and analysing how you move; to determine if the way you load during movement is causing injury or progressive “wear and tear.” Often the cause of your injuries can be a distance from the site of your pain.
Some examples include:
- Weakness of the hip (gluteal) muscles may cause the knee to collapse inwards during walking, running, or lunging. This can cause groin pain (impingement, labral tears, or osteoarthritis), knee pain (joint or tendon injuries) or ankle pain (joint or ligament injuries).
- Ankle stiffness from previous injury forces compensatory movements at the knee, hip and pelvis, causing pain in these joints and supporting muscles, tendons and ligaments.
- A leg length difference from conditions such as scoliosis or being involved in asymmetrical activities can result in multiple injuries, all on one side of the body, including low back or neck pain.
In these common examples, localised medical or physiotherapy treatment to the affected area (site of pain), without looking at the individual as a whole (source of the problem), can only result in disappointing long term results.
- Watch you perform specific movement tests (eg Step-down), perform validated tests, video & analyse to find the source of the problem.
- Make a clinical diagnosis and plan a "Pain to Performance Pathway"
- Combine manual therapy skills to release thickened structures (eg: muscle, fascia and other connective tissues) with specific exercises to relieve pain.
- Use feedback mechanisms and specific functional exercises to correct your movement. "Practice doesn’t make perfect; practicing perfectly makes perfect".
- Restore normal, pain-free, healthy movement.
- Return you to your functional goals.
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- If your symptoms (eg: pain, stiffness) are caused by movements or activities and ease with rest.
- If your symptoms keep recurring, especially when you return to activities.
- If previous healthcare practitioners have only assessed and treated the site of pain and your symptoms have either not resolved, are persisting, or keep recurring.
The 1st session is an hour’s duration. It includes a detailed interview followed by comprehensive movement testing. Subsequent sessions are usually between 30 to 45 minutes each, depending on the complexity of your injury presentation.
We believe that thanks to the detailed quality of our assessments, analysis and skilled treatment strategies, we can help and improve many individuals that have been previously told that their condition is untreatable. Commonly, patients report they have been told to stop all activities such as jogging or recreational pursuits. We encourage patients to continue performing exercise, even if modified and guided by pain and response to exercise over 24 hours.
Correction of Biomechanical faults not only reduces the duration and recurrence of injury but can also significantly improve your sports performance and ability to perform your activities of daily living painlessly.
Let us help you achieve satisfying long-term results, reducing the likelihood of future injury and improving your general sports performance.
Our Step by Step Approach
- Find the source of your injury (or recurrent injuries)
- Correct the source to alleviate the site of your pain
- Change/optimise your movement patterns
- Integrate these improvements into your sports action (often in conjunction with your technical coach)
- Maintain optimal movement patterns to improve performance and reduce risk of future injury
Prescriptive exercises will be provided during each session and then emailed to you afterwards using the GrooviMovements Physio Software Exercise program, allowing you to easily follow how to perform and progress each exercise.